Isabel on the horizon

By Adrin Snider/Daily Press

Bobby Kellum, left, and his son, Russell Kellum, both from the Guinea area of Gloucester, prepare to anchor Russell's Chesapeake deadrise workboat "Miss Jordan" in the middle of Deep Creek in Newport News as cloud formations from Hurricane Isabel loom on the horizon Wednesday morning. Watermen and pleasurecraft owners looking to weather the storm were readying their boats by double-lining them dockside. Others, like the Kellums, chose to anchor in the sheltered creek.

Bobby Kellum, left, and his son, Russell Kellum, both from the Guinea area of Gloucester, prepare to anchor Russell's Chesapeake deadrise workboat "Miss Jordan" in the middle of Deep Creek in Newport News as cloud formations from Hurricane Isabel loom on the horizon Wednesday morning. Watermen and pleasurecraft owners looking to weather the storm were readying their boats by double-lining them dockside. Others, like the Kellums, chose to anchor in the sheltered creek. (By Adrin Snider/Daily Press)

Bobby Kellum, left, and his son, Russell Kellum, both from the Guinea area of Gloucester, prepare to anchor Russell's Chesapeake deadrise workboat "Miss Jordan" in the middle of Deep Creek in Newport News as cloud formations from Hurricane Isabel loom on the horizon Wednesday morning. Watermen and pleasurecraft owners looking to weather the storm were readying their boats by double-lining them dockside. Others, like the Kellums, chose to anchor in the sheltered creek.